PHILADELPHIA -- Tiger Woods was named by captain Jim Furyk on Tuesday to play for the U.S. Ryder Cup team later this month and will make his eighth appearance in the event but first since 2012.
Although the at-large pick was expected, it was still the culmination of a remarkable and unlikely run which didn't seem possible when Furyk named Woods to be one of his vice captains in January.
At the time, Woods, 42, was ranked 656th in the world and had not earned a single Ryder Cup point. He had not played competitive golf in a year.